Lobby in Parliament. Giovanni Endrizzi (M5S) criticizes the reassignment of the gaming delegation to the Hon. Giorgetti
(Jamma) “The expression “gaming lobby” is very inflated, and it wouldn't make sense to contest it if it limited itself to describing the phenomenon of the “pressure group” that tries to defend its interests. Furthermore, it seems that even the political system is equipped with it, in the form of protection of the respective internal prerogatives, and therefore there are no profiles of apprehension on the point", writes the Assotrattimento association in a note, "However, when public proclamations are made to raise the guard against the "powerful game lobbies" (they would even be multiple), one must at least be "informed" about the facts:
1. The legitimate gaming industry has learned from press sources, and not from normal institutional reports, that the Chief of Police recently signed an inter-managerial decree which sanctions a "compulsory" investment by the amusement machine sector in award that "is worth 1,5 billion euros", or almost 100% of the entire "system profit for 2012" (6,5 billion euros in AWP turnover, 50% of which paid to the Treasury, 50% of the residue received from a component of the supply chain exempt from investment charges, i.e. the merchants).
2. The lawful gaming industry has "learned" from press sources and from the praetorian register, that in half of Italy AWP machines cannot be switched on for the duration of the opening hours of the clubs, but that they must observe an hourly quota established by the Municipal administrations without even a simulacrum of "hearing" of the sector (which, moreover, is mandatory by law).
3. The legitimate gaming industry has entered the "sights" of the antagonistic action, suffering the occupation of its headquarters, the media hammering on the sites and on the SF by the "no-slot collectives", without anyone taking up the news or bothered to express the usual and free solidarity usually to anyone recognized by those who receive attacks of this type.
4. The legitimate gaming industry has been "evicted" from Liguria, and within the next four years not even a "legal" slot machine will be able to reside on this "soil" anymore (the ban does not apply to illegal devices).
5. The lawful gaming industry "lives" in a state of perennial "ambiguity", given that consistent "decrements" and consistent "advances" of tax performance are required of it on and off.
6. The "lawful gaming" industry is opposed by data - flows - statistical evidence on health emergencies - totally devoid of scientific support and totally different from reality, without any access to contradictory rectifications.
7. Millions of euros are asked of the "lawful gaming" industry for "the commercial promotion of public products", but they are prohibited from advertising (which they still insist on maintaining as invasive and persistent).
8. No other entity has ever been subjected to a bad reputation "constructed in the media on such a massive and destructive scale" as the one to which lawful gaming has been "proudly" subjected by all public and private broadcasters and newspapers.
9. No "product" (not even asbestos) has ever managed to establish itself (like the lawful game) as a "priority national scourge (that once all the country's problems have disappeared), in the context of the "widespread thought" cultivated by opinion makers.
10. The legal gaming industry is "on the front page" for its relations with the credit sector, but no one responds to the report of this Association which denounces the impossibility for the "represented" operators to maintain or open a normal current account dedicated to the company.
Decorum imposes the "truncating" of the already significant list.
If the Politics express apprehensive judgments of these powerful lobbies, it is perhaps the case that a more punctual recognition (and revision) of the "phenomena" and "definitions" be made as soon as possible, so that Government action can have a more effective effect on the country's problems.
